THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Eats before dinner?

10 Gamble

14 Dangerous toy

16 Dramatic opening

17 No light amount of work

19 Photo ___

20 Gets hitched

21 Overseas dissent 22 Exploit

24 Go down or come up

26 Shot contents

28 Garment originally fashionable in the late

1950s

32 Childhood home of Grant Wood and Elijah Wood

34 Talk show host named in the #MeToo movement

35 Dance in which “you bring your knees in tight”

36 Way to get around writer’s block?

37 Makes tingly, in a way

41 Dinner from the oven

42 Home of the

11,000-foot-deep Cotahuasi Canyon

43 External: Prefix

44 Fully accept

51 Wine aperitif

52 TV series whose first episode was titled “Where Is Everybody?”

55 Polo on the small screen

56 They typically revolve around steps

57 Polite reply to Aunt Polly

58 Subject of many emo songs

DOWN

1 Orchard pests

2 River from the Appalachians

3 Program that analyzes the structure of input

4 Emergency key

5 So

6 City SW of Kansas City

7 “___ 101” (former Nickelodeon sitcom)

8 Connection concerns, in brief

9 Renaissance painter Guido

10 Org. in 2017’s “Dunkirk”

11 What laying a king on its side in chess means

12 “Elektra” composer

13 Their checks don’t check out

15 Like half a deck

18 Pictures that might make you hungry

23 Owner of the Cheshire Cat, with “the”

25 Harden the outside of through cooking

27 Hearty entree

28 Actress Hayek

29 Spring arrival

30 Certain racing teams

31 ___ Zor-El, Supergirl’s birth name

33 Problem for a plumber

34 Crib users

35 Counterpart of an iamb

36 Fairly

38 River to the South China Sea

39 Comes with

40 Least in question

45 Unaccounted for, briefly

46 Unappealing trumpet sound

47 Frosty film

48 Jon who wrote and illustrated “Smart Feller, Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms”

49 Julie ___, host of TV’s “Big Brother”

50 Italian diminutive suffix

53 ___ O’Hara, Martian’s host on old TV’s “My Favorite Martian”

54 Wine shop offering, informally